... was very young and his mom couldn't take care of him and he brother so she sent William to live with his father's friend, Thomas Ewing. William lived there and eventually married Thomas's daughter. A few years later, William went to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He graduated from West Point in 1840. During ... Military Academy at Alexandria, Louisiana. After the war, the school moved to Baton Rouge and became known as Louisiana State University (LSU). In 1861, William resigned and went back to Ohio, where he was born, and then brought his family to Missouri where he became th...

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William Tecumseh Sherman William Tecumseh Sherman was born on February 8, 1820 in the town of Lancaster, Ohio. When Sherman was nine years old his father died. Sherman was then raised by Senator Thomas Ewing ... ...

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... to keep the slavery states safe and the radical republicans that wanted to free the slave states. In 1861 at fort Monroe the head person who was against slavery, Benjamin Butler, allowed the slaves that came to him for help after running away would be free instead of giving them back to their owners. The president didn't like that and wanted ... ...

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... grew in number and began hating everything the black people did. The Klan and the other groups mentioned were successful in keeping many blacks away from the voting boxes. Benjamin Butler who was a Radical Republican urged President Ulysses S. Grant to take action against the KKK. In 1870, the President sent investigators to look into the organization. A grand jury reported back that ... ...

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... grew in number and began hating everything the black people did. The Klan and the other groups mentioned were successful in keeping many blacks away from the voting boxes. Benjamin Butler who was a Radical Republican urged President Ulysses S. Grant to take action against the KKK. In 1870, the President sent investigators to look into the organization. A grand jury reported back that ... ...

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... civil war. Then time passes and more battles were fought. Then comes the Union Campaign, which resulted in the capture of Atlanta on September 2, 1864. It started May 4,1864. General William T. Sherman led his army of 110,000 men to northern Georgia followed by the smaller Confederate army of 60,000. General Sherman had a strategy. General Sherman threatened to cut General ... who were against slavery and the Confederates who were for slavery. There were many men involved in the war but there were five very important men, President Abraham Lincoln, General William T. Sherman, President ...

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... detailed reenactment of President Lincoln's Assassination and the aftermath that resulted in a trial involving seven men and one woman who were all tried for the assassination of President Lincoln and William Seward. The movie was first seen on the November 3rd of 2010 in the Savannah Film and Video Festival. It was later available for the public to see on April ... Johnson Danny Huston - Joseph Holt Colm Meaney - General David Hunter Jonathan Groff - Louis Weichmann Johnny Simmons - John Surratt Stephen Root - John Lloyd Toby Kebbell - John Wilkes Booth James Badge Dale - William Hamil...

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... read all the books, newspapers, and political tracts that came his way. He also studied books on grammar and acquired a lifelong taste for the poetry of English poet and playwright William Shakespeare. In the spring of 1832, Lincoln decided to run for a seat in the Illinois House of Representatives. This was a logical step for Lincoln to take, for on the frontier ... of Kentucky called themselves National Republicans and later Whigs. Lincoln supported Clay, who had long been his political idol. After his defeat, Lincoln opened a general store in New Salem with William F. Berry as his pa...

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... that accrued while he was president. Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1808. He lived with his parents Jacob and Mary Johnson along with his older brother William. Jacob Johnson worked as a janitor for the State capital along with a hostler at the inn. "His father was a hero. He saved two friends from drowning in the year 1812, however ... _ earlylife.asp). Mary maintained the home by working for Casso's Inn, a popular inn and stable. His widowed mother worked as a weaver and a spinner to feed Andrew and his older brother William. Turner Daugherty Andrews step father ...

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... led his troops on a spearhead attack on Cemetery Ridge that was supposed to break through the center of the union line. This has been called the Confederacy's "high-water mark". William Garrison William Garrison played a major role in the American Abolitionist movement. He published a paper called the Liberator which said that slavery was wrong and we needed change immediately. In 1833 Garrison ... ...

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... up in order to join and assist in leading the anti-slavery movement. Becoming a very important leader of the radical abolitionists, Phillips authored abolitionists pamphlets, wrote editorials for his friend William Lloyd garrison's news paper The Liberator, and gave numerous speeches for the cause, which were esteemed by many who heard them. After Phillips and garrison founded the Anti-Slavery Society ... so on fire?" Phillips liked at his friend and said "Brother, I'm on fire because I have mountains of ice before me to melt"(Huffington net), speaking of slavery. Both Phillips and Will...

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... Grant had left town. Atzerodt was to kill the Vice-President Andrew Johnson at Kirkwood House where he resided. Powell and Herold were assigned to kill the Secretary of State William Seward. Both attacks were scheduled to take place simultaneously at approximately 10:15 p.m. that night. Booth hoped that the resulting chaos and weakness in the government could lead to a comeback ... for the South (:Lewis, Neely 187) At about 7:00 p.m. William H. Crook, Lincoln's bodyguard, was relieved three hours late by John Parker. Parker was told to be on hand at Ford's Theatre when the Presidential ...

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... was felt to have more influence on moral principles concerning slavery. Sadly, the Freedom's Journal (which subsequently been renamed The Rights of All) went out of business on October 9, 1829. William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp in Boston, Massachusetts, founded the Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper, in 1831. It ran for nearly 34 years (until December 29, 1865). Garrison was very vocal ... if its readers were African American. Garrison continually pressed for abolition through his writings in the paper, as well as rallying boycotts against products of slavery. Because of his acti...

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... . In 1812 Jacob Johnson saved two of his friends from drowning. But died in 1812 from over-exertion. This left Mary to raise Andrew and his older brother William. Mary Johnson apprenticed Andrew and William to a tailor in Raleigh when Andrew was fourteen years old. Andrew had never been to school in his life. The only education he had while growing up ... ...

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... to the next. Before the Civil War, there were many abolitionists that had campaigns trying to get their opinion to reach others. People like Nat Turner who had led a rebellion, William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Weld, Sojourner Truth, Fredrick Douglas, the Grimke sisters and many more worked endless hours trying to voice their opinions. Sarah and Angelina Grimke led the fight for ... free or slave states. There was the Compromise of 1850 that was deciding whether California should come in as a free state and the rest of South as a slave state. Senator William H. Seward of New York; which ...

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... fifteenth year, and I certainly never have had a black woman for either a slave or a wife" (Lincoln-Douglas Debate 1858). Pro slavery attitude seen in the commissions was seen when Judge William Harris spoke to the Georgia General Assembly. There he said, "Every other issue paled in comparison to the Republican threat to the South's racial order" (Dew 29). This ... ...

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... times. John Tower's 1961 victory laid the foundation for the growth of Republican Party in Texas. In 1978, not only did Texans reelect Tower but they also chose a Republican governor, William Clements, after 105 years of Democratic Party domination of the governor's office. On President Reagan's coattails, Republicans further expanded their domination of Texas politics by making substantial inroads into the ... ...

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... what they said did not go together. Document A shows the divided opinions on slavery after the Declaration of Independence. Many states, primarily on the north, were abolishing slavery. In Document E, William Lloyd Garrison attempted to win the support of the anti-slavery movement. He made it clear to Americans that slavery is wrong. He pushed people to support anti-slavery. Anti ... ...

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... Colfax and for his second term the vice president was Henry Wilson. His first term Cabinet consisted of Hamilton Fish for Secretary of State, George Boutwell for Secretary of Treasury, William Belknap for Secretary of War, George Robeson for Secretary of Navy, George Williams for Attorney General, and Jacob Cox as the Secretary of Interior. For Grant's second term, he had ... ...

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... laughing at a part from the show, Booth opened the door and shot Abe in the back of the head. Booth escaped while 3 doctors had brought Abe across the street into William Peterson's Boarding House. At 7:22 on April 15th, 1865 Abraham Lincoln was pronounced dead. Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated. His assassination had a long-lasting impact upon ... ...

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... 13, 1818 in Lexington, Kentucky and died on July 16, 1882 in Springfield, Illinois. He got married on November 4, 1842 in Springfield, Illinois. He had 4 kids, Robert Todd, Edward Baker, William Wallace, and Thomas or "Tad ". His home was Springfield, Illinois. He didn't have much education except some local tutors, so basically he was self educated. He didn't have any religious ... ...

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... battle. Douglass was never beaten again. After his escape from slavery via Baltimore and New York, Douglass landed in New Bedford and began his journey as an abolitionist. He met William Lloyd Garrison, was hired by the Massachusetts Abolitionist Society and became one of their stair chest representative. He was often introduced as a "graduate from slavery with his diploma written upon ... ...

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... years old. Thomas re-married in 1819 to Sarah Johnston Lincoln. In 1836, Abraham Lincoln became a lawyer. He married Mary Todd in 1842 and they had four sons Robert, Edward, William, and Thomas. Lincoln ran for senator but lost to Douglas. He later ran for president in 1860 and was elected in 1861. On April 14, 1865 Lincoln played a role at ... ...

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... by definition, but were at least opposed the expansion of existing slavery. In fact, some northerners believed the exact opposite of what their southern counterparts thought. These northerners, such as William Lloyd Garrison, thought the south was formulating a "Slave Power" conspiracy. "Now the ultimate goal of the Slave Power plot - was the nationalization of slavery. The first step in the conspiracy ... ...

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... sixteen years. The Lincolns had four sons. The eldest, Robert Todd, was born in 1843. Edward Baker born in 1846, but died prematurely in 1850 at the age of four. William Wallace was born later that same year that Edward had died. Finally, Thomas was born in 1853. (Whitney 135). When Lincoln moved to New Salem working as a clerk and postmaster ... ...

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